The decision came over the weekend after Russian officials had once again asked foreign backers for more financial aid.

The same was true of the foreign backers of the project.

Their details, including one foreign backer, will be provided "in confidence" to the Electoral Commission.

They are usually the old guard and their foreign backers.

Beyond political jostling among various groups to gain power and an enormous external debt, his foreign backers proved unwilling to leave when asked.

Lao forces on both sides were entirely funded by their foreign backers.

But it would be a severe blow to the morale of the Government and the presitge of its foreign backers.

The war spun out of control when that rebel movement turned against its foreign backers.

Naturally, any advantages thus gained are short-lived, for both the Lebanese and their foreign backers.

He said that until now the rebellion had been too tightly associated with its foreign backers, especially Rwanda.